Senior UX Designer

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We are looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our Tax and Accounting division at Wolters Kluwer. We won’t state the obvious regarding what UX Design exactly is. As UX-ers, we are the advocates of the user. We think outside of the box to envision novel solutions to clearly defined problems. We won’t bother you by telling you that we like to validate our approach with frequent research using all kinds of techniques. Let alone ask you to tell us that we need to design stuff, in different levels of fidelity too. In this role you will advocate UX within our organization, not only within the development teams.

About this role

We are looking for someone who can combine design and development: a deviner! Not just to make things that are divine, but also to have fun with us while doing so. We won’t ask you to be the person to do all of these things at once. We would like you to focus on wireframing and visual design first and bring your html/css skills with you while you’re at it. Because we work in multidisciplinary teams on our projects, we are looking for a real teamplayer. We help to bring out the best in each other, everyone contributes to the best of their abilities and has the confidence to speak up when necessary.

We like to go fast, so we have a few neat things in place to help us go fast. We follow the Wolters Kluwer Brand Guidelines. This is not some boring set of rules to follow to the T, but a living and breathing global community of UX designers and developers, where you are welcome to contribute if you see the opportunity, and where you can find a crazy load of best practices and frequent online interaction with your global colleagues.

In this global community we have created our “product design system”. This is a set of base patterns and components that can be reused and tailored within every project and can be extended by the local teams where necessary. Of course, you as UX’er can add new components or features to this library so that other teams can also benefit from your effort and ideas. And importantly, we want you to be the UX representative for Belgium within this community. You will be attending meetings and workshops to promote our Belgian work and to streamline global initiatives with our projects.

Your key responsibilities

Be a part of a team

You are a team player and determined to meet the team’s goals. You will work closely together with developers, technical architects, analysts, project management, product developers and business development.

Improve UX-expertise

Review the work of your fellow UX-ers and provide constructive feedback. With our Win as a Team mentality, we expect you to share best practices to raise the knowledge of our colleagues to a higher level.

User research and observation

You can help visualize the research and usage data in a clear and insightful way. We don’t want data to live somewhere in a sad folder, we want it to be shared and discussed by the different teams. Ability to visualize data is a big plus in our book!

Wireframing and Mockups

You can dole out prototypes, wireframes, and even detailed designs in a jiffy. “Getting in the zone” is just another way of saying you are achieving flow when designing, it comes effortlessly and naturally for you. You know when to use what type of prototyping. Lean and mean wireframes in some cases, beautiful gems of detailed design in other cases. You are not just a wireframing wonder, you are a detailed design devil as well.

Follow the market

An important part of your job is to proactively look at our market and the UX world.

Coder skills

On top of this, you can discuss html/css implementations with our front-end developers to make your designs come to life in a browser or mobile device.

Your profile

• +5 years’ experience with UX design
• Knowledge and experience with tools like Figma & Sketch
• Experience working in Agile teams
• The ability to discuss with front-end developers about finding the best implementation in CSS & HTML to bring your design to life
• You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to multi-task
• By nature you are big picture-oriented and a strategic thinker, but you know you have a lot to learn and are ready to start from the basics and work your way up from there.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to build good working relationships to work alongside technical, business, and other teams, ability to inspire and engage project team.
• Flexible and open to change
• You are an excellent communicator in Dutch and English, both written as verbal. You know how to convince others and are at ease when meeting new people, both inside and outside the organization.

More about our projects

• We are a part of the Business Unit Tax And Accounting Software. We develop products for fiscal and accounting professionals, but also financial and business tools for their clients. We aim to improve the collaboration and communication between the different parties in the wide sense of the accounting and tax domains.
• We have recently embarked on a journey to bring the cloud and hybrid solutions to our all of users. We are building strong teams with different capabilities. Back-end developers, front-end developers, designers, analysts, product owners are working together on a number of projects. Since 2018 we put focus on renewing on the tax software suite, where we will build the future offering for tax specialists, large accounting firms, but also for different large banks who count on our fiscal expertise.
• In the cloud transformation we are building a workspace where customers can purchase our new cloud & hybrid tools, manage these tools & find all the support related topics like our knowledge base, e-learning, support tickets, …
• On top of this, we have organized ourselves in competence centers, enabling us to grow further as professionals. We will do a number of cross-competence center initiatives, where i.e. UX designers and front-end developers will build a ‘play’-project that is of great use to the organization. We basically get time to solve an internal problem.
• Wolters Kluwer wants to stimulate innovation and design thinking, and organizes a global competition, called The Code Games. The intense two-day software development coding competition helps to generate exciting new innovations for the company while showcasing internal technical talent. We strongly encourage each member of the software team to participate in this competition.

We offer

• A dynamic and international position within high-growth software company.
• A fulltime job of 39 hours and a competitive salary package, with numerous benefits
• The opportunity to work remote up to 3 days a week, with our office in Hasselt acting as a meeting place
• Support to your personal development through on the job & formal training, and state-of-the-art practices.

If this sounds like an interesting opportunity for you, then please apply by simply clicking on the apply button!